al service or more than twice
to any Department at Washington, unless upon request of the appointing
officer; nor shall anyone remain eligible more than one year upon any
register; but these restrictions shall not extend to examinations under
clause 5 of Rule VII. No person while remaining eligible on any register
shall be admitted to a new examination, and no person having failed upon
any examination shall within six months thereafter be admitted to
another examination without the consent of the Commission.

5. Any person appointed to or employed in any part of the classified
service, after due certification for the same under these rules, who
shall be dismissed or separated therefrom without cause or delinquency
on his part may be reappointed or reemployed in the same part or grade
of such service at the same office, within eight months next following
such dismissal or separation, without further examination.

RULE XVII.

1. Every original appointment or employment in said classified service
shall be for the probationary period of six months, at the end of which
time, if the conduct and capacity of the person appointed have been
found satisfactory, the probationer shall be absolutely appointed or
employed, but otherwise be deemed out of the service.

2. Every officer under whom any probationer shall serve during any part
of the probation provided for by these rules shall carefully observe the
quality and value of the service rendered by such probationer, and shall
report to the proper appointing officer, in writing, the facts observed
by him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer and
of the service performed by him; and such report shall be preserved on
file.

3. Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application
for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement made
in any certificate which may accompany his application, and every
deception or fraud practiced by him or by any person in his behalf and
with his knowledge to influence his examination, certification, or
appointment, shall be regarded as good cause for the removal or
discharge of such person during his probation or thereafter.

RULE XXI.

1. No person, unless excepted under Rule XIX, shall be admitted into the
classified civil service from any place not within said service without
an examination and certification und